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Texas buyout magnate T. Boone Pickens, who has a spread in Del Mar Country Club Estates near Rancho Santa Fe, is throwing a St. Patrick’s Day fund-raiser for GOP Congressman Brian Bilbray. The host committee includes the usual names, among them Sempra’s Jessie Knight and ex-assemblywoman Charlene Zettel. … Former San Diego schools chief Carl Cohn, who sometimes bridled under close questioning of his stewardship by board member Mitz Lee, is listed as a “special guest” at an upcoming fund-raiser for her June opponent John Lee Evans. Cohosting the March 9 event at the La Jolla home of clinical social worker Victoria Danzig is Francine Busby, the Democratic congressional candidate bested by Bilbray in their race to succeed Randy “Duke” Cunningham.